
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
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Air Date: 1951-12-24
Broadcast live from New York, Gian Carlo Menotti's Christmas story was the first opera commissioned for television, a...
Air Date: 1952-01-06
A Hollywood press agent is assigned to promote a starlet with whom he was once in love.
Air Date: 1952-01-13
Adaptation of the novel by Helen Ashton.
Air Date: 1952-01-20
Dramatization of the love affair between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
Air Date: 1952-01-27
In 1631 Roger Williams landed in Boston. He had come to America to find freedom of belief and worship; instead, he fo...
Air Date: 1952-02-03
Biography of Florence Nightingale: her determination to build hospitals and train nurses for the sick and disabled du...
Air Date: 1952-02-10
Story of Anna Ella Carroll, prominent member of a Maryland family who served as unofficial but close advisor and spec...
Air Date: 1952-02-17
Irish-American tailor Hercules Mulligan's contribution to the American Revolution.
Air Date: 1952-02-24
The story of Dolley Madison.
Air Date: 1952-03-02
The meeting of George Sand and Frederic Chopin.
Air Date: 1952-03-09
The founding of the Girl Scouts, presented on the occasion of their 40th anniversary.
Air Date: 1952-03-16
A salute to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on its 150th anniversary, focusing on Anna Warner's historic gift...
Air Date: 1952-03-23
The story of America's first woman aviator.
Air Date: 1952-03-30
The story of Reverend Edward Joseph Flanagan who, as a young priest from Ireland, founded Boys Town, Nebraska, where ...
Air Date: 1952-04-06
Little-known incidents in the life of Grover Cleveland.
Air Date: 1952-04-20
Story of America's first woman author.
Air Date: 1952-04-27
Dr. Edward Jenner discovers the smallpox vaccination.
Air Date: 1952-05-04
The life of Francisco Goya; set in Spain, 1786.
Air Date: 1952-05-11
The story of Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams.
Air Date: 1952-05-18
Eliza Monroe, in Paris as the wife of the U.S. Foreign Minister toFrance, obtains Madame Lafayette's release from pri...
Air Date: 1952-05-25
A biography of Louisa May Alcott, ending with her writing of ""Little Women"" in 1860.
Air Date: 1952-06-01
Biography of Ben Jonson, covering the writing of Eastward ho; set in London, 1606.
Air Date: 1952-06-08
Biography of Nefretiti, illustrating her life with the Pharoah and her influence on Egyptian history and culture.
Air Date: 1952-06-15
The story of Anna and John Peter Zenger and their fight for freedom of the press.
Air Date: 1952-06-22
A dramatization honouring American educator Martha Berry, founder of Mt. Berry, a Georgia home for mountain people.
Air Date: 1952-06-29
The story of the Bronte sisters.
Air Date: 1952-07-06
An infantryman in the American Revolution lights a firecracker and gets blown into another generation.
Air Date: 1952-07-13
Story of a town in U.S. taken over by corrupt men due to the neglect of the citizenry.
Air Date: 1952-07-20
An aging man thinks his usefulness to society is at an end.
Air Date: 1952-07-27
Story of the importance of one vote in an election.
Air Date: 1952-08-03
A young state senator runs into a moral problem while conducting a cleanup campaign.
Air Date: 1952-08-10
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Air Date: 1952-08-17
A young Czech girl in the U.S. is faced with the choice of returning to her family behind the Iron Curtain or remaini...
Air Date: 1952-08-24
Story of Johnny Appleseed, the wanderer who planted trees as he traveled.
Air Date: 1952-08-31
Story of a wealthy middle-aged married couple who retrace their honeymoon, and in so doing, regain their love for eac...